Month: December 2020

Federal Government has assured Nigerians that the much anticipated COVID-19 vaccines will be administered free when vaccination begins. National coordinator, presidential taskforce on COVID-19 (PTF), Sani Aliyu made the disclosure on Channel TV’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday. Aliyu said through the GAVI arrangement, there is the assurance that over 40 million Nigerians will be vaccinated.…

A photographer, @highfee_nooni, has taken to social media to narrate his horrible experience with Amotekun operatives in Ibadan. He said he was on his way from church at 12 noon on Dec 22 when he saw people running. He later discovered they were running from Amotekun, the south western security outfit. He explained that since…

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has finally suspended its nine months old strike. The union announced the suspension of the 9-month old industrial action at a press conference held Wednesday morning in Abuja. ASUU President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi,who led other National Executive Committee of the union to the event where he made the…

Antarctica, once the only continent not to be ravaged with the novel COVID-19 pandemic, has now recorded its first cases. The Chilean army announced in a statement that 36 people linked with the General Bernardo O’Higgins Riquelme base on the planet’s southern pole had tested positive for COVID-19. Of the 36 infected, 26 are reported…

The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will hold a crucial meeting in Abuja to take action on the nine-month-old industrial action which has crippled the Nigerian Universities System (NUS). Daily Sun gathered that the crucial meeting will hold at ASUU Secretariat from Tuesday night until Wednesday. A national…

Two yet-to-be identified staff of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) have been electrocuted in Asaba, the Delta State capital. It was gathered that the victims were working when power was suddenly restored, leading to their electrocution. The Director-General, Young Nigerians Organisation, Victor Ojie, who confirmed the incident to PUNCH on December 22, accused the…

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu says repentant bandits played a role in securing the release of over 300 schoolboys abducted from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina. Recall that on December 11, gunmen on motorcycles attacked the school and abducted the students a few hours after President Buhari,…

President-elect of United States of America,, Joe Biden has received his first injected dose of the Covid-19 vaccine live on television on Monday December 21, in an effort to reassure its safety ahead of its wide distribution next year. Biden received the vaccine alongside his wife, Jill at ChristianaCare Hospital in Newark, Delaware. They will…